The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-11-04
RELIGIOUS.

IT, Y
| The thorough Interviewing Of the
roots Of Christianity with the history
i the world on which ii has sprung,
. at once source of It's power and
IN assurance of Its Divineness.---JameS
/ Martineau.
Fear not solitude II is harmless
As the pure moonlight, whose silver
-ays portray, in The palaces of the I'M.
godly, hellish spectres, and ID The cot
tages Of the pious bright angles of
heaven. Fronstho German Of Wagner.
Learn, o student, the true wisdom.
See yon bush afame with roses, like
The burning bnsh Of Moses. Listen,
and ihon shalt hear, II thy soul be not
deaf, how from ont it, soft and clear,
speaks to thee tho Lord Almighty
Persian Hafz), Conway.
Many people spend their time in
trying to fad the hole where sin got
into the world. If two men break
through the ice into the mill.ponu,
they had better hunt for some hole TO
get ont rather than get into long
argument about the hole they came to
fall in.
The true hero is the great wise man
of duty,-he whose soul is armed by
truth and supported by the smile of
God, The who meets life's perils with
a cautious but tranquil spirit, gathers
strength by facing its storms, and dies,
if he is called to die, as a Christian
victor at the post of duty.
These very feet of ours are pnrchas-
ed for Christ's service by the precious
drops which fell from his own torn
and pierced feet upon the cross. They
are to TO be his errandsrunuers. How
can we let The world, the flesh, and the
devil have the use of what has been
purchased with such payment ~ r.
Hauergal.
Depend upon it, in the midst of all
the science about the world and its
ways, and all the ignorance of God
and his greatness, the man or woman
who can say, ''Thy will be DONE" with
the true heart of giving up, is nearer
the secret Of things than the geologist
and theologist.-Geo. Macdonald.
] saw a dark shadow resting on the
hare side of the hill. Seeking its cause,
l saw a little cloud, bright as light,
floating in the clear blue above. Thus
it is with our sorrow it Is dark and |
eheerloss here on earth; but look
above, and you shall see it to be but a
shadow of his brightness whose name
is Love.---Dean afford.
Anywhere, everywhere, hate evil, |
shnn falsehood. deny self, trust in the |
Love that died for you, realize the |
Mercy that waits for YOU, open vour
heart to the Grace that is sufficient for
you and then, though all unheralded
by mystic Voice or blazing Appari.
ton. the Unseen Ono recinrocates
vonr filial WARNINGS and moDifests
Himself TO Won in another wav than 10
does unto the worId-Rey Peter 6
Nfnzies
Yon NAV he nearer IN Christ than
Won think Those men WIN won't
stumbling along tha road to Emmans
weenino and monrninr that ibo;r
Chr st was oone nonrad into b,s yory
ear their tale of boraayemont Tboy
told him of their troubIe-tbat thew
had lost Christ and there he was talk
ing with them. In the midst of their
deep grief there was their victory. and
they did not know it.
Once in q while man ,h;rLs ifuo
R.ntists would ;nst o;no ~ ,ha;n
"elosc communion" thew wonId laEo
tho world Snob nan doa. No.
know the facts Of history or bo wonId
NOT tb;nk Of sncb thing Tbo Erao,
viii Rantist have ali tho s,nnoso5 olo-
mepts IF nonnIori,v I'm, in oil Amor
, lea there are not a hundred Thousand
Of them. The .lstrict'' Baptists han.
tie moro aImos, every wear Than tho
whole nnmber of mFreewiIIs q" altar
4 that peonle have tried the onerscom.
). munion plea for over a eepturv. Il
a is also a fact that in those sections Of
= country where "strict," Bsntists ars
0 the most ''striet" they have the great
est prosperity. Indeed, in those parts
II open communion is almost unknown.
1t -Baptist Banner.
n When Peter of Cortona was en-.
e gagged on picture for the royal pal
?. ace of Petit, Ferdinand II particularly
D admired the representation of the
v weeping child. ''Had your majesty
e said the painter, "a mind to see how
s. easy it is to make this very child
1t laugh 2" The artist merely depressed
d the corners of the lips and the inner
Is extremities of the eyebrows, when
C the little urchin seemed in danger OF
). bursting his sides with laughter who
d 4 moment before seemed breaking his
e heart with weeping Lives worth liy.
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